Video may be thought of as primarily a visual medium, but the role of sound in your movies is often no less important than that of the images on the screen.

Feature film and television productions include numerous types of audio, beginning with the dialog and other sounds created during live action. In your movies, that raw soundtrack – the original or synchronous audio – is imported along with the video, and remains bound to it unless you explicitly separate them.

Most commercial productions also require sound effects – slamming doors, crashing cars, barking dogs – and incidental music, which may consist of music created especially for the production, songs taken from recordings, or both. With the ScoreFitter tool, you can even create a full-length musical background track at the press of a button. Voice-overs and other types of customized audio are also often needed.

 

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